One of our favourite photographers, Slava Mogutin, is back with his latest body of work. The New York based Russian – who was forced into exile from Russia on account of his outspoken writings and activism in 1995 – has virtually unveiled Young Blood Open Heart. The series, created with traditional photo and paper collages combines bodily fluids, rust, wine, vinegar, lime and beet juice and vaginal cream. “Let’s now all go organic and vegan, shall we?” he writes to accompany the project.

NYC Dyke March by Slava Mogutin, June 25, 2016 Censored by Instagram for violating “Community Guidelines”

The writer, filmmaker, artist and activist has also recently penned an open letter to media mogul Mr. Mark Zuckerberg in The Huffington Post, entitled The Censorship Monster: Who’s Afraid Of A Queer Nipple In The Digital Age? The letter shares a “very personal account of censorship in the digital age”, which includes his outrage at the removal of an image he posted of a “happy bull dyke with a cool hairdo wearing nothing but a patriotic American bikini”, who was “the ideal poster girl for this year’s NYC Dyke Pride.”

“So, my question was and still is: what was so offensive about this nonsexual image and what makes a queer nipple (or, rather, documentation of thereof) so dangerous for the Censorship Monster? And what exactly makes Instagram “Community Guidelines” more superior to the New York City law and the ACTUAL COMMUNITY guidelines, according to which women – either straight or gay – have the right to go topless in public without being harassed, arrested and prosecuted just like in the dark Giuliani era of policing for profit, mass police brutality and incarceration?”, he writes.

Read the letter in its entirety here and take a look at Young Blood Open Heart above.